The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1887-07-20
Gibson Station SpIintcrs.
by our Resident Correspondent.

H SA'SSl'VpNSnt' |"N
did you ever feel such hot wealth
err" is the common expression nova
days. Crops arc suffering for rain
corn especially is failing rapidly.
Our town has been flooded with
whortlebcrries, and the trucksters are
rolling in their watcrmelons by the
wagon load.
Mr.. Edmund Gibson has the finest
melons seen this season he is furnish
ing the town gratuitousfy his kind
big heart would not know how to
charge a neighbor for . melon or bas-
ket Of fruit.
Mrs. James II. Frizell returned this
morning from Carthage, N. c., whore
she has been visiting relatives and
friends for some time.
Quite q number Of families from the
st. Johns neighborhood "picknicked"
at the Spring near Laurinburg Thurs.
day--a pleasant and enjoyable time
is reported.
We can boast Of a regular Grain
Reaper in u section. MI. Henry G.
Northam has cut with an ordinary
"grain cradle" this season seventy-fivc
ncres of small grain-avcraging over
four acres per day during the entire
harvest.
The execution OF Archie Martin, the
murderer Of Mcneil, took place at
Rockingham, Tuesday 18th inst. A
tremendous crowd wa present and
some Of. them don't know until This
day, whether the Sheriff hanged Arche
le or archie hanged the Sheriff.
The protractcd meetings, are in
vogue again. Smyrna closed to-day !;
Bethel begins Sunday. The Boykin
meeting embraces the fifth Sunday in
July.
J. p. Gibson will open School at
Boykin the Sth Of August. lie has
succeeded in getting a fine school
over fifty pupils having promised to
| attend.
One Of our good ladies Just over the
cline" purchased one of Waddill's
"Coffcc Pots" The water boiled (;
breakfast ready !; all anxious to SAM,
pie the new article; the good wife
poured out a cup full for Tom he was
thinking of the aromatic draught the
Agent had described; but 10, and be.
hold, no coffee had been put in the
sack and the water was clear and IN
colored. Tom in his quiet unassuming
manner remarked that "NIr. Waddill
did not say that it would save all the
coffee, but that it would take inst q
little. OF course the coffee had been
overlooked.
Good many Of our people are pre-,
pairing to get off to jackson Springs.
r. L.. Kirkwood, the assignee of D.
y. Gibson, sold publicly on the 18th
MI the real estate, save the homestead
which formerly belonged to said d ID.
Gibson the property wns purchased
by different parties and brought good
prices.
Messrs. John and Aubry Breeder
were in town this week also Messrs.
l.. X. Breeder and r. G. Eastcrling.
Mr.. r. l.. Kirkwood, of our town,
has accepted a position with Mr.. Geo.
w. Waddill, Of your town, as book
keeper and cotton buyer. Lee is n
good trader, genial and clever, and l
feel sure that Mr.. Waddill will not
regret his selection.
Our District Conference
at Maxton, embracing the 4th Sunday
in this month. Can't you run over?
STATE LINE.
Gibson's Station, N. c., July Is, 'S7
Death the Reaper cuts down the
little girl, and then the aged mother
is called from time to eternity. Last
Friday. July 18th, the little daughter
and oldest child Of Mr.. Willie Odom.
died OF typhoid fever, making 10 mem,
bcrs Of mat family which have led Of
the same disease within the last two
years.
MRS. ELIZABETH LILIES.
This highly esteemed and cb.ls,t i
lady passed from the troubles Of time
into tho blissful realities Of a heavenly
rest, last Saturday evening,
July 10th, ut six o'clock. Had she
lived until her next birthday she would
have been 50 years old. She was the
widow Of Holden w. Lilies, who died
70 years ago, and the daughter Of Mr..
James Stubbs-having been born and